different between vacancy vs opportunity
vacancy
English
Etymology
From vac(ant) +? -ancy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ve?k?nsi/
Noun
vacancy (countable and uncountable, plural vacancies)
- An unoccupied position or job.
- An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
- Empty space.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Lack of intelligence or understanding.
- (physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
Related terms
- vacant (adjective)
- vacate (verb)
Translations
vacancy From the web:
- what vacancy rate should i use
- what vacancy mean
- what vacancy rate is good
- what's vacancy rate
- what vacancy do you have
- what's vacancy factor
- what vacant means in spanish
- what's vacancy in french
opportunity
English
Etymology
opportune +? -ity, from Middle French opportunité, from Latin opportunitas
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p.??tju?.n?.t?/, /??p.??t??u?.n?.ti/
- (General American) enPR: ä'p?r-to?o?n?-t?, IPA(key): /??p??tun?ti/
- Hyphenation: op?por?tu?ni?ty
Noun
opportunity (countable and uncountable, plural opportunities)
- A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
- A favorable circumstance or occasion.
- (nonstandard, Euro-English) opportuneness
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- opportunity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- opportunity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
opportunity From the web:
- what opportunity cost
- what opportunity means
- what opportunity cost means
- what opportunity cost in economics
- what opportunity are you most interested in
- what opportunity zone means
- what opportunity presents itself to pahom
- what is opportunity cost examples
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